You can almost taste the panic coming out of Washington as the $8,000 and $6,500 home buyers programs expired on May 1st. Will this be the jumpstart the housing industry needed or will it be like the “cash for clunkers” that caused a spike when the cash was flowing but empty showroom when the money dried up?
Move over Blackbird sisters, Roxy Abruzzo is in town. For the fans of prolific author Nancy Martin, the transition for the “cozy” Blackbird sisters to a more jarring and raw “hardboiled” genre has ruffled more than a few feathers. Some of the Amazon reviews for those comfortable with the genteel fare of her earlier books took umbrage with this new direction.
By Ryan McGarry
Charles Todd is a rarity among modern writers of popular fiction; he is original. There is nothing derivative about his protagonist, Inspector Ian Rutledge.
Set in England just after the First World War, Rutledge returns home from combat shell shocked but functional. Resuming his career as a Scotland Yard Inspector, his bout with personal [...]
The first time I meet Sue Grafton it was in the mid-1980s where she came to speak at her sister’s library branch in Cincinnati. About half of the 50 or so seats were filled.
By most standards Pat Conroy’s lasted novel, “South of Broad” would be a really good book. When measured against some of Conroy’s earlier efforts such as “The Prince of Tides”, “The Great Santini” “Beach Music” and “The Lords of Discipline”, it doesn’t measure up.
In the novel, The Fourth Awakening, the authors, Rod Pennington and Jeffery A. Martin have attempted to present some complex cutting edge science concealed in a fast paced suspense novel. While presented as a work of fiction, many of the events in the book come from the real life experiences of Pennington and the research of Martin